[Python-Dev] bool conversion wart?

skip at pobox.com skip at pobox.com
Sat Feb 24 23:02:04 CET 2007


    Neal> Except, all the numeric types do, including int, float, and
    Neal> complex.  But not bool.  

The fact that bool is a subclass of int is more historic than necessary.  If
not for Python's long usage of 0 and 1 to be the canonical False and True, I
suspect that bool might have been implemented as a new standalone type.

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